Re: SEO spam

[James Robertson <jarober@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The easiest way I've found to combat this sort of thing - we run a public 
wiki as well - is to have a feed off of the thing.  I see the changes 
without having to remember to visit, and can fix such nonsense as soon as 
it happens....

At 12:36 PM 10/5/2003 +0200, you wrote:

> I've just gone through ~100 pages on the Wiki and removed the SEO
> spam were inserted by "px2cv.gv.shawcable.net". I hope it's possible
> to track this bastard down, and block his IP or something.
>
> I know it's possible to revert versions, but I didn't know how to do
> it, and I wanted the changes to be done fast, so the SEO bastards didn't
> get what they spammed the Wiki for; hits on their webpages. I hope no
> search engines have picked up the SEO addresses from the Wiki during
> the time the links were there.
>
> To view a page that was spammed, here's the AuthorElementDiscussion
> page of 05.10.2003 08:32:00:
>
> http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/AuthorElementDiscussion?action=recall&date=
> 1065335520
>
> At the top, right beneath the table of contents, there are three links
> pointing to SEO stuff. I've removed all those on every page I could find.
>
> --
> Asbjørn Ulsberg           -=|=-          X-No-Archive: No
> "He's a loathsome offensive brute, yet I can't look away"

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